Our research combines tools and outlooks of structural biology and synthetic organic chemistry to elucidate, sense, and regulate the activities of biomolecules. We use state-of-the-art techniques in electron microscopy, diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance, molecular dynamics, mass spectrometry, single-molecule spectroscopy, and molecular design. Our department is highly interdisciplinary, at the interface of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.

News

Prizes at ICA meeting 2023

Congratulations to Lev Khmelnitsky for winning the best talk award and to Disha Gajanan Hiregange for best poster at the Israel Crystallographic Association meeting 2023

 

June 08, 2023

Winner of Best Poster - Ilanit meeting 2023

Congratulations to Lev Khmelnitsky (Fass lab) for winning best poster prize at the Ilanit meeting

March 05, 2023

Clifford Felder Prize

Congratulations to Michael Katz (Diskin lab) and Nava Reznik (Fass lab) for receiving the Clifford Felder Prize  

March 05, 2023

Congratulations to Tal Ilani

for discovering the first physiological targets of the Golgi disulfide catalyst QSOX1.

 

October 18, 2022
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New article published in Cell

Congratulations to Nava Reznik and the team on their paper in Cell: Intestinal Mucin Is a Chaperone of Multivalent Copper

October 12, 2022

New article published in Nature - Michael Katz

"Structure and receptor recognition by the Lassa virus spike complex"

February 20, 2022
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New article in eLife journal - Rosie Irwin and Ofrah Faust

“Hsp40s play complementary roles in the prevention of tau amyloid formation”

September 29, 2021
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New paper in JMB

New paper in JMB from Amnon Horovitz’s group (in collaboration with Michal Sharon)

JMB vol. 432, Issue 23

December 13, 2020

Prof. Ada Yonath - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome

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Events

  • Date:
    16

    Monday

    October 2023

    Hour: 11:00 - 12:15,Location: Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    Event name: The Southern Lights — Rhodopsin Complexes Discovered in an Algae Near Antarctica Can Help Unravel the Secrets of the Brain

    Dr. Moran Shalev-Benami, Department of Chemical & Structural Biology, Faculty of Chemistry, WISRead more

  • Date:
    30

    Monday

    October 2023

    Hour: 11:00 - 12:15,Location: Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    Event name: title tbd

    Dr. Rina Rosenzweig, Department of Chemical & Structural Biology, Faculty of Chemistry, WIS

  • Date:
    07

    Tuesday

    November 2023

    Hour: 14:00 - 15:00,Location: Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    Event name: TBA

    Prof. Robert Konrat, Computational Biology and Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy University of Vienna

  • Date:
    09

    Thursday

    November 2023

    Hour: 14:00 - 15:00,Location: Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    Event name: TBA

    Prof. Thomas Kiefhaber, Martin-Luther University Halle Germany

  • Date:
    14

    Tuesday

    November 2023

    Hour: 14:00 - 15:00,Location: Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    Event name: TBA

    Prof. Ben Davis, Department of Pharmacology Medical Sciences Division University of Oxford

  • Date:
    19

    Sunday

    November 2023

    Hour: 14:00 - 15:00,Location: Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    Event name: Amyloids of Parkinson’s disease protein -synuclein: mechanisms and reactivity

    Prof. Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Division of Chemical Biology Department of Life Sciences Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, Sweden

  • Date:
    21

    Tuesday

    November 2023

    Hour: 14:00 - 15:00,Location: Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    Event name: TBA

    Prof. Kirill Alexandrov, Queensland University of Technology Australia

  • Date:
    31

    Monday

    March 2025

    Hour: 11:00 - 12:15,Location: Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    Event name: title tbd

    Prof. Cynthia Wolberger, Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University

  • Date:
    23

    Monday

    June 2025

    Hour: 11:00 - 12:15,Location: Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    Event name: title tbd

    Prof. Danna Freedman, Chemistry, MIT